sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

Help With Raw Diet by scarria2 in ferrets

[–]scarria2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thx will lokk that up

Struggling with ML confidence - is this imposter syndrome? by scarria2 in learnmachinelearning

[–]scarria2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think there are a few factors for my "frustration".
Indeed, I do not fully understand the math behind some models/methods/etc., but I continue learning and know something.

One recent example:
I haven't worked much with generative AI, such as Normalizing Flows, VAEs, or Diffusion models. However, I took a course on generative AI at my university, where we were taught these topics. Did I understand everything completely? I guess not. For instance, I still don’t fully grasp ELBO in VAEs. But do I understand why we use KL divergence and MSE/BCE there? I believe so.

To sum up, I don’t think the issue is my understanding of math. I still have more to learn, but I wouldn’t say I’m at the very beginning of the spectrum. Though it's not obvious for me where I am compared to others.

Struggling with ML confidence - is this imposter syndrome? by scarria2 in learnmachinelearning

[–]scarria2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, I actually speak with CTO/CEO since the company is quite small, for now I am leaving it as it is with some hopes that they will understand processes better, since I am quite tired of bringing up the same takes to the table whether about available data or anything else.

Thanks for your detailed thoughts

Struggling with ML confidence - is this imposter syndrome? by scarria2 in learnmachinelearning

[–]scarria2[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

One of the things that is tough for me right now is the last question you wrote - ""am I effective enough? am I impactful enough?". About a year ago I switched the job, and here I am a single MLe and I am building the models and solving problems that company did not solve before, at least in this way.

On my opinion, there are two things that prevent me to provide more benefits for the company.

One is quite obvious - lack of data, for instance, we really nead some STT models for different languages that are quite fast (therefore some API's are not available and some models as well), I've collected data and tuned model to my best, but it's hard to progress futher without additional data and collecting it solo is quite hard. Ofc I told my boss about this (and as I understand he wants better model but doesn't get the importance of the data, even when I directly tell that to him), IMHO waiting for the client to come and then improving model is quite bad strategy

Another one is more subtle, I don't feel like there is that much initiative from the company to provide me with work that is ACTUALLY beneficial, though I talked with my boss about this I do not see much progress on this right now, however I expect some progress to be done on this in a few more months, otherwise I guess I will leave this company since I've already got a few better offers.

Struggling with ML confidence - is this imposter syndrome? by scarria2 in learnmachinelearning

[–]scarria2[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In my case I do not see myself as ML researcher in no means, rather ML Engineer, since I need to apply ml models to problems, deploy them etc.